Dragon Age 2 Walkthrough

Building on the story of Dragon Age: Origins, but not exactly picking up where it left off, Bioware’s 2011 fantasy epic, Dragon Age 2, will center around a place called Kirkwall. The burg is beset by many of the omnipresent problems of the company’s proprietary fantasy universe: skullduggerous nobles, Templar vs. Mage conflicts, and, last but not least, the Blight.

Though players will not have the opportunity to select their race, they do have control of gender and class, and the choices don’t end there. As in every Bioware game, the player is given a huge amount of discretion over how the story plays out, discretion that can often be a little bit overwhelming or confusing. Regardless of its effect, we’re preparing a full text and video walkthrough to guide you through every aspect of the game. We’ve also got lists of Trophies and Achievements, as well as a Cheats page, which collects all sorts of useful Dragon Age 2 information.

After an introductory cinematic, you’re thrown into a combat tutorial. Defeat the waves of enemies while learning your various abilities, present on the hotbar.

You will not need to venture away from this area; the enemies will come to you.

Right-click on enemies to attack them. For hotbar abilities, either click the hotbar or press the corresponding hotkey number. Some powers require you to left-click on a target to attack it. If you’re already engaging the target, it will auto-attack.

Press R to engage the closest enemy.

Use area of effect attacks when dealing with groups of enemies, and use stunning and heavy-hitting attacks on single enemies, like the giant ogre.

If needed, press the spacebar to pause the game, select the power you’d like to use, and select a target. This can compensate for slower reflexes/decision making and save your life in future battles.

When the ogre enters battle, he will charge. Side-step to avoid being knocked prone.

The game opens with an interactive cutscene that offers you conversation paths.

Once the cutscene ends, loot the dead refugee a few feet ahead. If you are a warrior, you may switch from your two-handed sword to a sword and shield.

Move down the path, following the minimap in the top-right corner westward.

Fight the gang of Hurlocks ahead. More will come at you from behind. During battle, you may switch between your character, the mage, and the warrior, to use their abilities.

After your first battle, your main character will level up. Distribute attribute points as you see fit; in general, a warrior will want strength and constitution, a mage will want magic and willpower, and a rogue will want dexterity and cunning. Select whatever ability fits your play style. Alternatively, use the “auto-level” feature to let the game make the recommended choices for you.

Loot all bodies you come across.

Continue west. After another cutscene, there will immediately be battle ahead.

This battle will lead into another cutscene, where two warriors will join your party. The male is wounded and will not help in battle.

As the cutscene ends, you will enter combat once more. After this battle, some of your characters will level up.

Another interactive cutscene will start, in which the wounded man threatens your character’s sister. If you defend her in the conversation option, you’ll gain 15 friendship points with her. Different conversation paths in this and future conversations will yield different friendship/rivalry results with your party members.

Continue along the path, south-east, until you run into the next fight. During the fight, enemies will approach from behind.

Continue south-east, into the next group of enemies. There will be a pair of archers on a ledge; you’ll need to move beyond them, make a U-turn to the left and double back to reach them.

Continue down the path. Around the bend, a tough battle awaits, including an enemy mage. Drink potions when you need them, and protect your mage. The enemy mage is a priority target: it deals high damage, but has low health.

Explore the alcove to the south-west. Loot the chest if you are a rogue. Locate and read the book near a corpse.

A cutscene will lead into another battle. You’ll be rapidly overrun, but don’t worry–a titular dragon is about to save you.

A final interactive cutscene will take you to Kirkwall.

Walk towards the guards blocking access to Kirkwall, marked with an X on your minimap.

In a cutscene, the guard will direct you to Captain Ewald, who will now show up on your map.

Walk through the guards and up the stairs, then head West until you reach the portcullis.

Move North and approach Captain Ewald. Once you mention your uncle during the cutscene, the riffraff will think you’re being let in before them and a battle will commence. Help Captain Ewald defeat the dozen traitors.

Having gained the Captain’s favor, Ewald will find your uncle. As you speak with your uncle in a cutscene, you learn he can’t get you in–not directly, at least. You’ll have to spend a year working off a debt to either a smuggler or a mercenary.

After the cutscene, go speak with the two contacts, marked on the map. One is to the North, the other to the South. Listen to both of them before deciding who you’d like to work for; you can only work for one, not both, so choose wisely.

In this text playthrough, the mercenary, Meeran, was selected. The video walkthrough covers the smuggler option. Depending on your conversation paths in the smuggler option, you can complete this mission without combat, or you can ask for a bribe and fail the mission. This would allow you to gain money from the smuggle option and still complete the mercenary mission.

You must prove yourself to Meeran by killing Lord Friedrich and his men. To find him, heat West, then South.

Engaging Meeran in combat will earn you 5 rivalry points from Aveline. During the fight, you’ll face a second wave of attackers–remember to protect your mage; you may not see these reinforcements coming.

With Friedrich dead, return to Meeran. He’ll welcome you into the Red Iron.

Speak with your mother. In the ensuing conversation, if you insist on being taken to the vault to read your grandfather’s will, you’ll gain access to this quest.

Speak with Bethany.

Leave your house, select your companions, and head to Darktown.

Move South and search the rubble.

Continue South and turn West toward the exclamation point.

Speak with Tomwise. He’ll give you a poison crafting recipe.

Head East as far as you can, then march North.

Make a U-turn toward the quest marker.

Climb up to the Amell Estate Cellar.

Head North into combat.

Search the crate in the North-Western corner of the room.

Head East into the adjoining room and search the crate.

Head North up the stairs and turn East into another battle.

Search the chest.

Enter the room to your South. Search the crate and the chest.

Exit North, then West through the slender hallway that leads into a larger room. Expect a battle.

Search the crate in the North-West corner of the room.

Move into the Southern room and fight the slavers.

Search the two sacks and read the book in the North-West corner.

Exit the room and head through the Western doorway.

You will fight a Master Slave and his goons in this room. Beware; a trap runs from East to West across the floor, dividing the room in half. If any in your party (like over-anxious melee-types) step on the trap, a poisonous cloud will appear and linger throughout the battle.

Loot the body to retrieve the vault key, then have Varric open the chest in the South-Western corner.

Head West up the steps and open the vault door.

Enter the room to the South and open the two chests.

Time to return to face your uncle. Head North out of the estate and into Hightown.

Venture North-West into the market. Sell the junk you’ve picked up through your quests.

Continue North-West to leave the area and bring up the world map.

Return to Gamlen’s House and confront him with the will.

Speak with Bethany. If you are friendly with her, you’ll gain 10 friendship points.

If you looted everything in the Birthright quest, you will have found an old portrait of your mother and unlocked this quest. At Gamlen’s House, speak with Bethany. Completing this quest will grant you 10 friendship points with Bethany.

This is the quest you picked up from Aveline when you… picked up Aveline. If you declined her mission offer, you likely won’t have this mission available. Bring up your world map (by exiting Gamlen’s house, for instance). Select the bottom-right icon of mountains to change map from Kirkwall to the Free Marches. Select the Sundermount Ambush Site.

Follow the winding path West then South-East into a battle with raiders.

With the battle over, head back North a dozen feet and explore the South-West dead-end path that slopes upward. Loot the skeleton.

Continue South and explore the dead-end that branches West. Loot the bones.

Head South into battle.

Follow the path as it curves South-West, then West to a chest.

Keep following the path North-West to some Elfroot. Select the plant to add it to your codex.

Continue North into the next battle.

Head North-West up the steps. Loot the rubble.

Return to the main path and head South-West into another upward-sloping dead-end. Aveline will say you’re approaching the ambush point.

With the dead-end looted, continue South-West into the final battle of this area. A second wave of raiders will emerge. Be wary–there are explosive traps near the barrels that will Injure your corrects (reduce their maximum hit points until they are healed with an Injury Kit).

When the battle is over, head South-West to exit the area.

Return to the Viscount’s Keep. Climb the stairs, then head South and enter the door marked on the minimap.

In the ensuing conversation with Aveline, if you express interest in further helping her, you will need to check the duty roster. Different conversation paths may yield different results.

Check the nearby duty roster.

Exit the keep to bring up the world map. Select the middle button on the lower right to change the map to Kirkwall – Night. Select Lowtown.

Make your way to the quest marker to the South East of Lowtown. You’ll run into a battle along the way.

You’ll find the guardsman surrounded by enemies. Save him. During the battle, more enemies will arrive from the direction you came. You will gain 5 rivalry points with Varric, or 5 friendship points if you use sarcasm.

Loot the body and the two chests.

Double back North-West, then head East down the stairs toward the exit.

Switch to Kirkwall – Day and head to the Keep.

Move toward the quest marker to finish the quest. Speak with Aveline once the quest marker is on her, and you’ll have the opportunity to gain 10 friendship points with her in the conversation.

Once through the doorway, you will enter combat with a Mature Dragon. This is a tough battle. It is, however, possible to kite the dragon with one party member while the others damage it. When the dragon is focusing its attacks on one party member, such as Aveline, select her and run circles around the area. Keep this up as long as the dragon follows.

With the dragon dead and the area looted, exit. You will have picked up a Dragon Fang from the dragon’s corpse for a future quest. Return to the Hightown market and speak with Hubert. If you agree to work with him as a business partner, you will gain a new secondary quest, “Get Back to Work.” You will also gain 5 friendship points with Aveline.

This is one of Meeran’s quests, delivered to your writing desk. Meet him in the center of Lowtown (Night). You may run into Highwaymen.

Speak with Meeran. Accept his quest.

Head to the Docks (Day).

Speak to Gustav, in the South-East area. Guards will attack you.

In this playthrough, I refused to kill the Lord. Time to report back to Meeran. Head to Lowtown (Night).

Once again, you’ll be assaulted by Highwaymen. Loot the corpses and you’ll receive the side quest “Sharp Little Pinpricks.”

Speak with Meeran. If you are honest with him, you won’t get any more quests from Meeran. If you lie, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Isabella, Meeran will pay you, and you can get more missions from him.

Speak with Martin in the South-West of the Hanged Man pub. Accept his quest. You’ll gain 5 friendship points with Isabela.

Before you leave, open the eastern door and loot the crate in the room beyond.

Head to the Docks and speak with the Longshoreman, toward the South-West of this area.

Speak with the Harbormaster in the north-western wing of this area.

Aden won’t give in to threats; he will only respond to coin. Apparently, if you have Varric in your party and refuse to pay Aden, you’ll be presented with the option to return at night to steal the list and have to fight a tough battle. In this playthrough, Aden was paid.

Head to Woodrow’s Warehouse in the eastern Docks.

Guards will block your path. The only way through is by the sword.

Enter Woodrow’s Warehouse.

Head West and open the southern door.

Descend the steps. You will enter combat with raiders.

When combat is over, loot the southern room; you may find Raider Plate Armor.

Exit West towards the boats and search the crate. You may walk right into a bear trap.

Before leaving, loot the chest in the north-western room, but be wary of a poisoned dart trap. It will fire several volleys before exhausting itself.

On your way out of this building (North-East), you’ll be ambushed again.

Return to the Hanged Man and speak with Martin. If you tell him where his poison is, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Isabela.

This quest can be picked up in Hightown, on a bounty note pinned to a wall. Travel to the Viscount’s Keep.

Travel up the steps and North into a conversation. You will be offered a quest; accept it.

Head to the Wounded Coast on the Free Marches map.

At this point, you may enter an instance related to a rumor Varric overheard. The minimap will show a southward path that branches in two, then converges. Travel South. The Western branche is filled with Giant Spiders attacking a group of mercenaries guarding a dwarf. After the fight, the dwarf will speak to you and offer you the Blackpowder Promise main plot quest. You will gain 5 friendship points with Aveline and Isabella.

Continue South and explore the westerly dead-end. Read the book on the floor to pick up the side quest “Caste Treatise and House Accounting.”

Leave the area through the southern exit.

Return to the Wounded Coast–we’re back on track for the proper quest. Head South-West. Explore the dead-end along the way.

Fight the Tal-Vashoth, then continue down the path. Speak with the Dalish Assassin along the way. If you tell her to let the man go, a fight will break out and you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Isabella. If you reply with “Do what you will,” you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Isabella.

Continue West, then South, until you run into the Viscount’s son. The conversation will lead into a battle, then another. And another.

Tell Saemus to wait while you thoroughly loot the area. You’ll pick up the Redblossom Special side quest.

Though this quest is over, there are three other quests to pick up in Hightown. Start by grabbing Help Wanted in North-West Hightown–it is a note pinned to a wall, and it will unlock The First Sacrifice secondary quest.

The other two can be found in Western Hightown. Speak with Macha to obtain the Enemies Among Us main plot quest.

You receive this quest by reading a note pinned to a wall in northern Hightown. Travel to Hightown to speak with Ghyslain de Carrac, up on the balcony in northern Hightown. If you accept his quest, you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Isabela. If you call him out as a vile pig, you’ll still get the quest, but you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Isabela.

Head to the Blooming Rose in eastern Hightown.

Speak with Jethann on the second floor in the building’s East.

Exit the building and make for Darktown.

Travel to the Meeting Place in the south-eastern corner of Darktown. You may run into rogues along the way.

Enter the Meeting Place.

Descend the steps toward Emeric and fight off the thugs that attack.

After speaking with the Templar, head to Lowtown (Night).

Enter the Dark Foundry in southern Lowtown.

Chase after the mage you saw in the cutscene (North). Shades, a Desire Demon, and Abominations will attack.

After the battle, halt your chase a moment to explore the room to the South and loot the chest therein–if your rogue can. Three shades will attack if you walk up the ramp.

Explore the easternmost L-shaped corridor to loot a chest and a barrel–and fight some more shades.

Loot the north-western room, then grab the sack of bones marked with a quest arrow. You’ll find Ninette’s ring.

Travel to the Gallows (Day).

Speak with Emeric to complete the quest.

Though the quest is complete, return to Hightown to speak with Ghyslain. If you tell him you found the ring on her severed hand, he’ll let you keep it (it’ll be represented by 1 gold coin).

You unlock this quest by speaking to Anders in Darktown after the Tranquility quest.

Speak with Anders in North-East Darktown.

If you select a heartbreaker option, you’ll gain 10 rivalry points with Anders. If you reply with a red-fist option, you’ll gain 10 rivalry points with Anders. If you initially reply with the purple mask, you’ll gain 5 rivalry points. If you reply with a heart option, you’ll gain 15 friendship points.

Speak with Samson in south-eastern Lowtown (Night). Along the way, speak with Sister Petrice to collect the Shepherding Wolves Main Plot quest.

Head to the south-eastern Docks (Night). You may fight raiders along the way.

Enter Arthuris’ Private Dock.

Head through the door and into a fight. There are three traps on the floor in the center of this room. Disable them with your rogue.

Loot can be found in a crate by the docks to the West, in a room up the steps North-West, and in a crate in the easternmost room.

When you’re ready for a fight, move into the north-eastern room. You will face Captain Reiner, an Abomination, and lackeys. Be wary of traps on the floor.

Loot the Abomination to find Thrask’s letter to pick up the “An Errant Letter” secondary quest.

Loot the chest to pick up the Hideout Location Map.

Exit the building and make for Darktown. Speak with Danzig in this region’s South-East. Prepare for battle.

Loot Danzig’s corpse to find the Map to The Wounded Coast.

Loot the chest if you can, then head for the Wounded Coast in the Free Marches.

Head South-West and follow the bend until you’re traveling due West, then turn South when you can. You may run into Tal-Vashoth along the way.

Round the bend to the East and enter the Slaver Caverns.

Head East and grab the Spindleweed.

Continue East through a doorway and into battle.

Travel East up the steps, through the winding passage and into the cavern with the starry ceiling for loot.

Head North, looting the cabins along the way, and pass through a slender corridor into a conversation.

Prepare for a large battle that will lead right into a conversation. If you let the wayward son carry on with his plan to join the Dalish, there’ll be peace when you are done–err, that is to say, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Isabela and 5 rivalry points with Aveline.

Loot the chest in the western branch, then return to the Wounded Coast, North.

You obtain this quest by speaking with Macha in western Hightown. Speak with Templar Recruit Hugh in the Gallows.

Speak with Solivitus in the heart of the Docks to pick up the secondary quest Herbalist’s Tasks, if you haven’t already.

Travel to Wilmod’s Camp in the Free Marches.

Head South down either path-they converge. You may find loot on both, so take a moment to explore them.

Continue South, loot the dead end, then head South-East toward the Templars.

Wilmod and Abominations will attack. Loot the bodies and crate, then return to Hightown (Night).

Travel to the Blooming Rose in south-eastern Hightown.

Speak with Viveka.

Climb the steps and enter the south-eastern room. Speak with Idunna. If you let the Templars handle her, you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Isabela. If you let her live until the very end, then kill her instead of turning her in to the Templars, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Isabella.

Travel to Darktown and enter the Sanctuary in the heart of this district.

Descend the steps warily–a trap awaits, as well as battle.

Head North and read The Veil, then proceed West to initiate a battle with skeletal archers, shades, and miscellaneous undead.

Wind your way westward through the corridor into the large chamber beyond. As you reach the heart of the chamber, more undead will attack.

Continue South, but watch out for an explosive trap in the L-corridor–it can wound your entire party. Send your rogue first to disarm it.

Approach the mysterious hovering man in the south-eastern corner and prepare to battle the demon mages that arrive.

Loot the area to grab the “Grimoire of the Apprentice” side quest, then speak with Keran. If you say you’ll tattle to the Templars, you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Isabela and 5 friendship points with Aveline. If you tell him he can leave, you’ll gain no points from either.

Speak with Cullen in the Gallows. If you vouch for Keran, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Aveline.

You need to retrieve 3 items for this quest. You pick up the Dragon Fang by looting the dragon at the end of The Bone Pit quest. You pick up the Spider’s Silk Gland by looting a Venomous Spider early on during the Magistrate’s Orders quest. Travel to Sundermount for the third item, Ironbark.

Head West into the Dalish camp and speak with Master Ilen. When you tell him you’re looking for Ironbark, he’ll tell you where to find some.

Search the crate behind Master Ilen to grab the map to unlock the Map of Occupied Kirkwall side quest.

Exit the area, North-West, and head to the Ironwood Clearing.

Advancing into battle with Hurlocks and an ogre.

Grab the Ironbark to the East.

Exit the area to the South and return to speak with Solivitus in the Gallows.

You receive this quest as a letter to your writing desk. Travel to the Wounded Coast Approach in the Free Marches.

Step a few feet East into a battle with Dragonlings.

Continue East and turn down the South path.

Speak with Thrask. If you respond with the checkmark, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Aveline.

Enter the Runaway’s Cavern and you will be ambushed by the Apostates you’ve agreed to help. Help them with your sword.

Continue South, through the doorway and down the steps, through a second doorway and into a fight.

Continue South through the doorway, down the steps and into another battle.

A conversation will begin right after the battle.

Head South through the doorway and up the steps. In this next area with cabins, the final battle with Decimus awaits.

The battle will lead right into a conversation. If you agree to help them without killing Thrask, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Aveline and Isabela.

Backtrack North to exit. You will fight more corpses along the way, for some reason. Twice.

Once you exit, you’ll enter a conversation. If you fail to convince Ser Kerass that you killed the mages, he’ll order his men to attack you. Every other conversation option leads to Ser Kerras attacking you anyway, so you may as well try to convince him.

After a suspicious conversation, head to Petrice’s Safehouse in northern Lowtown.

If you accept the quest, head through the trapdoor to your East into the Undercity Warrens.

Travel East for a fight with a variety of over-sized spiders. A line of traps divides this room in half; the traps shoot fire from the walls.

Climb the steps and head North, into another spider trap.

Continue North and fight some–you guessed it–spiders.

Keep going North, then East. You’ll need to climb another flight of stairs–a trap at the foot of the staircase spawns a cloud of poison. And at the top of the staircase, you get to fight a poisonous spider. At least you get to loot a chest.

Continue East. In case you hadn’t noticed, Bethany points out that Ketojan hasn’t been helping.

Advance towards the thugs. During the conversation, Ketojan finally makes himself useful. I guess he was waiting for a dramatic moment.

Loot the chest and hope that your thugs were holding something more valuable than mine, because all I got was a rusty metal spoon.

Continue up the steps and loot the prettier looking chest, then exit through the South to the Mountain Pass.

A confusing conversation will ensue, with many made-up words. If you mention Bethany was a mage, you will be attacked. If you reply with the red X, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Aveline, and you will be attacked. If you reply with the checkmark, Ketojan will offer some touching last words, then he will be promptly executed. And you will be attacked.

If Ketojan is alive after the battle, he’ll want to die. If you reply with a checkmark, he’ll give you his talisman.

There are two requirements to starting this quest: you must have amassed at least 50 gold coins, and you must have completed the Tranquility quest. If you have completed every quest you could, sold all junk items you’ve looted, and not made any big purchases, you should have roughly 90 gold coins.

Ensure Varric is in your current party, then travel to north-eastern Hightown and speak with Bartrand. Get the expedition started.

Speak to Bartrand again. You’ll need to decide who to take with you on the expedition, which will amount to a longer-than-usual quest. You must take Varric, which leaves two spots.

SPOILER ALERT: (Yeah, this whole walkthrough is a spoiler, but this is a big one.) If you take Bethany/Carver, they get infected during the expedition and will die, unless you brought Anders, in which case you can choose to turn them into Grey Wardens. If you leave your sibling with your mother, they’ll be forced into/willing join the Circle/Templars. Whatever the case, you won’t have them around for a while, so make sure you take your items out of their inventory before you lose them. In this playthrough, Bethany stayed with mother.

You’ll be asked to find someone’s son, Sandal. If you agree, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Varric and Aveline.

Travel East, then North, then East again into a battle with Hurlocks.

Continue South, then East, then North down the steps and into another battle with Hurlocks.

Loot the locked chest in the corner to the West. Your rogue needs 20 Cunning to unlock the chests in this area–if your rogue doesn’t have 20 Cunning yet, make it so at your next level-up and double back to loot the chest.

Continue North, then East through a door into battle.

Head South into the excavation pit to loot Silverite, two chests and one locked chest.

Climb the steps to the East toward the closed door. A spider ambush will drop from the ceiling, along with the biggest spider you’ve seen yet. If you run up the steps, the monstrous spider can’t follow you.

With combat over, head up the steps to the East, through the door, and loot the chest.

Exit the pit by climbing the stairs and continuing East, then North around a corner into another Hurlock battle.

Grab the mushroom and continue North into a conversation.

Grab the raw lyrium, then head East.

Turn North down the passage lined with ominous stone figures that definitely won’t ever spring to life and attack you.

Continue North and fight the Hurlocks.

Turn West, down the steps and into another Hurlock battle. Grab the Raw Lyrium in the South-East corner of this chamber.

Loot the chest at the foot of the dwarf statue to the West, then climb the steps up to the door.

Fight the ogre in the next room.

Proceed through the western door, mindful of the bear traps.

Turn South, then West, then North. Loot the chest.

Continue North, then turn West. A Dragon will swoop down from the ceiling in the cavernous chamber beyond. Dragonlings will join the battle. This will likely be your most difficult battle yet (and there’s an even tougher one coming up). Watch for when the dragon is about to breathe fire, then move out of the way. Pull wounded party members back from the battle and kite the dragon as much as possible.

Head West to the Primeval Thaig to end this segment of the expedition.

Travel North, then East into a conversation.

Continue East into a battle with Shades. And then, in a completely unpredictable turn of events, a Stone Golem will come to life and attack.

Loot the chest, then the Orichalcum to the East.

Descend the steps, North-East, and enter the Primeval Thaig (again?)

Travel South, through the doorway, up the steps, and into a cutscene. Bartrand will lock you in. Don’t you love that guy?

Travel South, through the door, then turn East and open the door to a room filled with Shades and another Stone Golem. Try holding a choke point at the doorway. It’ll be a tough battle, as the golem summons more waves of Shades, but you get to reap the reward of four chests.

Continue South into a cavernous chamber and fight Shades. Profanes will spawn at the chamber’s exit, South.

Continue South out of the chamber, then turn East into battle with Shades and Profanes.

Travel East down the corridor, through the door and into battle with Shades and Profanes. A conversation will begin after the battle. If you agree to work with the hunger demon, you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Aveline. If you refuse, you’ll gain 10 rivalry points with Merrill and 5 friendship points with Aveline. If you ask Merrill to kill it, she will fail, but you won’t gain friendship or rivalry points. If you choose “We kill it,” you get the same outcome.

In this playthrough, the hunger demon was killed. After looting the chest, continue East up the steps and through the door into another battle.

Continue East, up the steps and into the final boss fight of the expedition. This will be the most difficult battle you’ve faced yet. When the Rock Wraith collapses into a hovering ball that crackles with energy, get behind a pillar to avoid the ensuing blast of energy.

With the battle over, loot the four chests to get the Crypt Key, then return to the surface to end Act I.

This Act begins with a conversation with the Viscount, wherein he will offer you a quest.

In this playthrough, the following quests were available at the start of Act II, after accepting the Viscount’s mission:

Main:

Demands of the Qunari

Blackpowder Courtesy

Companions:

Plans for the Future

Visit Anders

Calling on the Captain

Speak to Fenris

Isabela’s Ongoing Search

Questioning Beliefs

Consoling Words

Speak with Saemus on your way out of the Keep–he’ll be by the stairs–to follow up on The Unbidden Rescue quest. As you exit the Keep, Bodahn will run up to you with 50 gold coins and word about your fancy mansion, giving you the Finding Home quest.

Speak to Fenris at his Hightown mansion. You’ll be offered a love option. If you reply with “You’re my friend,” you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Fenris… which isn’t the usual reaction you get in real life when you spurn someone into the “friend zone.”

Speak with Anders at his clinic in Darktown, accessible from the World Map. You’ll be offered a love option. If you mainly stick with the green leaf conversation paths, you’ll gain 5 friendship points with Anders.

Speak with Isabela in the Hanged Man pub. You’ll be offered a love option, which will grant you 25 friendship points with Isabela. Any other option awards 5 friendship points. Speak with her again to complete the Questioning Beliefs quest.

You must first complete the “Isabela’s Ongoing Search” quest before you can complete this one. Speak with Isabela in the Hanged Man pub. You’ll be offered another love option. If you select it, you will continue the romance the next time you return to your mansion.

You receive this quest in the form of a letter from Arianni to your writing desk. Speak with Arianni in north-eastern Lowtown.

When presented with the conversation options “I understand” and “I can’t do that,” with regards to making the son Tranquil, you’ll gain 10 rivalry points with Merrill if you reply with “I understand” and 5 friendship points with the second option.

After a conversation that explains you are about to enter a dream world, you are prompted to select which companions to bring along. Select Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity–wait, wrong dream world. In this playthrough, Aveline, Isabela, and Anders were selected. Anders will be controlled by his demon/spirit Justice–which isn’t a bad thing.

In this trippy dream world, you’ll immediately spot an ethereal book floating around to your West. Reading it will be tricky, because it only remains in one spot for a half second, but you’ll gain an attribute point once you succeed. Stand in a spot that the book returns to in its loop, pause the game as it reaches you, give the command to read it, then un-pause. You’ll need to select it twice; once to get it to lie down, and once to read it.

Proceed East, through a door, and face the barrels to your North. If you rearrange the barrels properly in a certain number of attempts, you’ll gain an attribute point. If you fail, you’ll summon shades. The objective is to arrange the large barrels on the bottom row and the small barrels in the top row. To accomplish this, select the barrels in the following order, with letters A and B representing the top and bottom rows, respectively, and numbers 1 through 4 representing the columns, from left to right.

A3
A2
A1
B1
B2
B3
A3
A2
B2
B3
A3
A2
A1
B1
B2
B3
B4
A4

Head South, through the door, then open the door to your North-East. This room contains another puzzle that will earn you an attribute point. The objective is to stack the red barrels into a two-by-two square. To accomplish this, select the barrels in the following order, with letters A and B representing the top and bottom rows, respectively, and numbers 1 through 6 representing the columns, from left to right.

A2
B2
B1
A1
A2
A3
B3
B2
A5
B5
B6
A6
A5
A4
B4
B5

Exit the room and open the door to your West. Go through the door and into a cutscene.

If you make a deal with the sloth demon, he’ll reward you with 6 attribute points at the end of this quest, but you will gain 15 rivalry points with Anders and have to fight. Don’t worry–unlike the Matrix, if you die in the Fade, you don’t die in real life. At least, your companions don’t.

If you immediately refuse the demon, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Aveline and Anders and have to fight the demon.

With Torpor defeated, climb the steps and open the door to your West, into Feynriel’s Pride. It is advised to enter this room before Feynriel’s Desires, during which you may lose a party member.

Continue West down the corridor and through the door to the West.

Warn Feynriel about the demon, then fight it. It’s really not as tough as it looks.

Exit East, back into the hall, and fight a random rage demon.

Head up the eastern steps and through the door into Feynriel’s Desires. Tell the boy to snap out of it. If Isabela is with you, the demon will temp your pirate friend with a fancy new ship and… herself. Apparently, Isabela likes big boats, and she cannot lie. If Merrill is with you, she, too, will give into temptation. You will have to fight your friend(s). You will later receive an apology companion quest from whoever betrays you.

Once battle is over, speak with Feynriel in the hall. If you refuse to kill the boy, you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Aveline and 5 friendship points with Anders. If you kill the boy, you’ll receive 10 rivalry points with Anders and 5 friendship points with Aveline. In either case, the Keeper will reward you with the Tome of the Slumbering Elders, a book whose importance she expounds upon, claiming “it has a rare magic beyond price”–yet it is kept in your junk pile to be sold for coin. It’s exact value? 70 silvers and 18 coppers.

Travel to Hightown (Night) and enter the DuPuis Estate, to the South-West. You may have to fight Invisible Sisters along the way. Don’t worry–you can see them. Apparently, they don’t know what “invisible” means.

As you advance into the area, shades will spawn and attack.

Read the note on the table to the East.

Head up the steps to the East and through either of the two doors on the eastern wall, into a room filled with shades.

Read the reply from Starkhaven on the table.

Continue through the eastern door, turn South, and open another eastern door. Loot the chest and inspect the Vials of Blood.

Exit West, turn North, and continue through the other eastern door.

Climb the steps and read Meredith’s Apology on the table.

Continue through the south-eastern door and inspect the chest of clothes.

Exit the room and head through the north-eastern door into a conversation.

In this playthrough, the selected conversation path was, “Let me help you.”

Loot the chest, then exit the house, West.

Return to the Gallows (Day) and speak with Emeric. He’s had a sex change and goes by the name Moira now.

Travel to the Blind Alley in Lowtown (Night).

Head West into battle. Completing this quest will unlock the “An Update” quest.

Travel to Hightown (Night) with Varric in your party. You may fight (In)visible Sisters.

Enter Bartrand’s Estate in western Hightown.

Varric will be the only one in the house, for some reason. You’ll immediately be faced with waves of guards that you will easily mow through, only to discover that Varric is once again embellishing his little story.

Once Varric starts telling the truth, head through the western door and fight some crazed guards.

Continue West through two more doors and into a battle with a crazed commander and his lackeys.

Head through the northern door into another crazed battle.

Continue North, then East around the corner. There is a trap in the next room that will spawn poisonous gas. Once triggered, guards will pour out of the two northern rooms.

In the eastern room lies a chest with a Complex lock; loot it if you can.

Exit the trapped room through the southern doorway into the house’s main hall. Guards will attack, and there are traps on the floor and the steps.

Climb the steps, East, into a conversation.

Before going through the eastern door, explore the northern and southern rooms. Loot the chests and you’ll upgrade Varric’s armor.

When you’re ready for battle, open the door. Bartrand will throw a smoke grenade and vanish; a few seconds later, crazed guards will start climbing the steps behind you. Bartrand will have a surprising amount of hit points.

The battle will abruptly transition into a conversation. If you tell Varric to kill his brother, you’ll gain 15 friendship points with him and 5 with Aveline.

Loot the chest and leave. In the ensuing conversation, you can earn another 15 friendship points with Varric.

Travel to Merrill’s home and speak with her. You’ll be presented with a love option. She’ll offer you a quest. Depending on your conversation, you can gain 10 friendship points with Merrill.

Head to Sundermount and travel North-West into the elven camp.

Loot the chest by the fire to pick up the Dalish Tattoo Ink for the Herbalist’s Tasks quest.

Speak with Keeper Marethari, North. She’ll give you a quest, and you’ll receive a side quest, Honoring the Fallen.

Travel North up the left-side path and grab the Elfroot along the way. As you approach the cave entrance, skeletons will rise in ambush.

Enter the Hunting Grounds.

Descend the steps, North, into a spider ambush.

Loot Radha’s corpse to get his or her amulet for the quest, Honoring the Fallen.

Continue North, across a bridge, through a doorway, then West down some steps and South-West into a passage that will lead to the second dead elf. Loot the corpse to grab his amulet.

Backtrack up the steps, North-East, then descend another flight of steps, West, into another damned spider ambush.

Continue North through the doorway and kill another spider.

Descend the steps and loot the chest in the alcove to the West.

Descend the steps, West, then turn East to loot the corpse of the third Hunter.

Continue West, into a cutscene.

Chase after the elf, West, then North, into another cutscene. Now you get to face the Varterral, which is basically a small version of the monster from Cloverfield. This battle is more annoying than it is difficult.

After the long battle come a conversation. You’ll somehow gain 10 rivalry points with Merrill if you’re nice to her. I guess she’s a masochist.

Loot the Varterral’s Heart for the Herbalist’s Tasks quest.

Loot the pile of treasure to the North-West, then exit the area, South.

As you backtrack your way out of the cave, skeletons will spring to life and attack.

Exit to Sundermount.

Return to the camp to speak with the Keeper, South.

If you give Merrill the thingamabob, you’ll gain 15 friendship points with her, but 10 rivalry points with Aveline.

Speak with Aveline in the Viscount’s Keep. She’ll ask you to play messenger.

Head South-West to speak with Donnic.

After confusing the poor man, return to speak with Aveline. She’ll send you on another petty errand.

Head North-West to post the roster.

Return to Aveline. In this playthrough, Hawke helped set Aveline up with Donnic and gained 5 friendship points with her.

Go speak with Donnic. Again.

Head to the Hanged Man (Night) and speak with Donnic. Yet again.

After a painful exchange of words, you’ll speak with Aveline. You’ll gain 5 rivalry points with her if you reply with “No excuses!” while the other option awards 5 friendship points.

Travel to the Wounded Coast. If this is your first time bringing Fenris to the Wounded Coast in Act 2, you’ll be stopped by slavers. If you reply with, “Fenris is a free man,” then you’ll gain 5 friendship points with him. Fight the slavers, then speak to the elf again and gain another 5 friendship points if you say “We go after them.” You will receive the quest, “A Bitter Pill.” Exit the area, and return to the Wounded Coast to get back on track.

Travel West until you run into battle with some dogs. Heroically murder the poor animals. There’s a bear trap on the floor.

Light the signal fire.

Continue West into battle with Raiders.

Light the second signal fire.

Head South-East into battle with Slavers. And another bear trap. How many bears have you seen? Because I’ve seen zero bears, yet a ton of bear traps.

Light the final signal fire.

Retrace your steps to exit the area, then return to the Keep to speak with Aveline.

Speak with Aveline again after the uncomfortable animal noises. If you say, “Yes, so be careful,” you’ll gain 5 rivalry points with Aveline. If you say “Never,” you’ll gain 10 friendship points with her.

Travel to Anders’ Clinic and speak with him. He’ll offer you a quest. You can gain 5 friendship points with him.

Travel to South-East Darktown and enter the Gallows Dungeon.

Head South, then East through a doorway and down a flight of steps. Loot the area, then backtrack to the intersection and continue South until you fight Lyrium Smugglers.

Continue South, down a flight of steps, until you can go North-West unto a dead end. A complex chest lies there.

Continue South, through the doorway, then bank East into a large chamber. You’ll trigger a web trap, and giant spiders will drop from the ceiling.

Loot the skeleton, the bones, and the mushroom before continuing South, up a flight of steps, West, South up another flight of steps, then East up yet another flight of steps and into battle with smugglers.

Continue East, then South through a doorway and into another smuggle battle.

Climb the steps to the East, then head South until you run into a conversation with Templars.

Depending on what follows, you may gain 15 friendship points with Anders and 5 with Fenris.

Loot Ser Alrik’s corpse to pick up his papers.

Climb the steps, South, then turn West to loot the alcoves before exiting the area back to Darktown.

You’ll enter a conversation with the mage Anders nearly killed. If you tell her to flee, you’ll gain 10 rivalry points with Fenris.

Speak with Anders in North-East Darktown. If you tell him about the papers, you’ll gain 15 friendship points with him. You will gain the Questioning Beliefs quest.

You obtain this quest by looting a chest in the quest, A Bitter Pill. Speak with Anders at his clinic. You’ll be offered a love option. If you select only the green leaf options, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Anders.

Speak with Sister Petrice, who is now Mother Petrice. Either she was promotd, or someone rang her bell.

Travel to Ser Varnell’s Refuge (Day).

Head North, then East up the steps and into the winding passage. A trap lies before a chest; disable and loot.

Continue East into the ralley. You’ll be presented with two options: kill Varnell and the others, or endorse the murder of the Qunari. No diplomacy option. In this playthrough, it was death to Varnell.

Loot the area on your way out (South), picking up the Shield in the crate by the exit to acquire the quest, The Shield of the Knight Herself.

This quest ends Act 2, so finish up any other quests before undertaking this one. Travel to the Qunari compound in the eastern Docks.

After a conversation that goes south, go West with Aveline towards the Keep. You will fight Qunari along the way, and have the pleasure of fighting alongside Grey Wardens.

You’ll fight some more in Hightown, then meet Knight-Commander Meredith. In this playthrough, Hawke agreed to help her.

Fight your way South, toward the Keep. There’s only one path to follow; other avenues will be cut off by fire and debris.

Eventually you’ll meet up with the Knight-Commander again, as well as some important elf from the Chantry. In the ensuing conversation, Hawke decided to take command in this playthrough.

In the next discussion, Hawke decided that “We need a distraction.”

Once you enter the keep, Qunari will charge from all directions.

Two traps on the steps block access to the second level. Head up the steps after disarming the traps, then continue East down the long hall and through the door.

Defeat the Qunari Honor Guard.

Depending on how you’ve treated Isabela in the past, she may waltz in with the tome. The Arishok wants to take her back to his land of Qunari for what can only be a grizzly end, so in this playthrough, Hawke replied, “You can’t have her.”

The Arishok will challenge you to a duel to the death. The winner gets Isabela. And the feminist movement is set back another century.

If you accept the duel, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Varric.

Dueling the Arishok results in a difficult battle. Avoid him when he charges up his powerful attacks–you’ll learn to recognize the sounds and animations he makes before attacking. Run figure-eights around the two pillars while you wait for your potions and powers to cool down.

Try to use stun powers as much as possible; stun him, then attack, then run away just as the stun ends. Wait for your powers to recharge, rinse and repeat. Roughly 7 healing potions and 7 stamina potions were used in this battle, but the Arishok was defeated without needing to load a previous save and try again, so this duel is entirely possible to win.

One Qunari sword is located in the north-eastern corner of Darktown, in Anders’ clinic.

Two swords are located on the Wounded Coast. One can be found in a pile of bones by the north-western side of the coast, within a dead end. The other can be found in the center branch of the three branches that run roughly parallel to each other, like columns, in a Qunari camp.

One sword can be found in the northernmost western alley in the Docks, on a skeleton.

One sword can be found in southern Lowtown, near the foundry, in rubble.

One sword is being sold at Koral’s Blades in North-West Hightown for 3.75 gold.

One sword is being sold at the weapon shop at the Gallows for 3.75 gold.

One sword is being sold at the weaponsmithy in Lowtown for 3 gold.

One sword can be found during the quest, On The Loose.

One sword can be found in the western Docks (Night), in a Master chest.

When you report back to Taarbas (in the heart of Hightown) with a sword, you’ll gain 1200 XP per sword if you don’t ask for money, and 30 silver pieces and 100 XP if you ask for money.

This quest is bugged and cannot be completed until BioWare issues a patch. In some playthroughs, you may find a bandit in the Wounded Coast, but he cannot be interacted with. In other playthroughs, you may not find the bandit at all.

This quest is acquired by finding a scroll in The Wounded Coast. Once you enter the region, travel South-West into the first dead end; the scroll will be near a skeleton. After reading the scroll, keep following the path as it curves West, then North-West, into a difficult battle with corpses. Once you defeat all the enemies, you’ll gain the quest, The Awiergan Scrolls: Pride Unbound.

Read the note on his table to acquire the quest, Gamlen’s Greatest Treasure.

Speak with your deal old Uncle. Remember that touching moment you had with him during the whole business with your mother? Remember how, for the first time, Gamlen seemed like a nice guy? Yeah, he’s back to being a jerk.

You acquire this quest by speaking to Hubert in northern Hightown. Travel to the Bone Pit, then take the path to your 5-o-clock and follow it southwest down into the grisly bone pit.

You will fight a high dragon here; many claim this to be the most difficult battle in the game. You may want to take Varric instead of Isabela; Isabela doesn’t have the health to survive in melee with the dragon.

The battle has three “intermissions” during which you fight dragonlings and a “regular” dragon while the high dragon lays back on a roost and lobs fireballs at you. These occur when the high dragon is at 75%, 50%, and 25% health, and they allow you the opportunity to replenish your stamina reserves and stock up on the potions you can loot from the dragonlings.

During these intermissions, the high dragon’s fireballs will lock on and follow a character. Move the targeted character away from your other characters to avoid splash damage.

The high dragon is deadliest to those in front of it. Constantly reposition your melee attackers at the dragons flanks, and keep your ranged attackers out of the range of its dragon breath.

With the dragon dead, loot the corpse to acquire the dragon’s fire gland and the quest Herbalist’s Tasks.

You acquire this quest by speaking with Nuncio in eastern Hightown. Travel to the Dalish camp in Sundermount. You’ll battle thieves along the way. Loot the Sylvanwood Ring off the corpse of the thief leader to pick up the quest, Memento of the Dalish.

Speak with Variel at the Dalish Camp. You’ll be offered a love option–don’t pick it unless you’re looking for rejection. Tell her you’re here for the Antivan.

Head North, taking the westernmost path, then the eastern path at the next branch. You may trigger an encounter with Hurlocks at the junction, and you’ll battle wasp spiders in front of the cave.

Enter the mountain cave.

Descend the steps and head South-West. Follow the passage all the way to its dead-end, where you can try your hand at a complex chest. Retrace your steps and descend the steps heading North-East, into–you guessed it–a spider ambush.

Loot the bones to get an armor upgrade for Isabela, then head North.

As you descend the steps, some harsh traps await. You’ll see three white squares in a row, with corpses beyond. Stepping on the squares triggers a fire trap, while a hidden trap beyond activates floor spikes that will cause Injuries. Order your party to hold position, then move one character at a time, skirting along the wall to the left to the safety of the next set of steps.

Head into the North-East nook to loot the sylvanwood ring off the bones (again?)

Keep following the path, working your way northward, until you arrive within a large cavern with a pile of treasure at the end. Looks too good to be true? Yeah.

That’s right, another Varterral. Because you didn’t get enough of the first one. Kill it; avoid standing near the tail and the head, where it deals the most damage. When it starts stamping the ground, watch out for falling rocks.

With the battle over, you’ll meet the man you’re here to capture. In this playthrough, Hawke let him go.

Exit the area, East, then travel to South-West Hightown (Night). You may fight Bloodragers.

Enter the De Launcet Mansion.

There is a qunari sword in here. Travel through the northern door, then through the eastern door at the end of the hall. Before entering, order your team to hold, because this room is filled with traps. If you can’t disable them, skirt along the wall to loot the chest in this room’s southern corner. It is possible to time your exit without being injured by any traps.

Travel to the Hanged Man (Day). You will fight an apostate mage and two blood mages along the way.

Turn in the poor sex-deprived man however you wish. Too bad you can’t give him tips on that haircut.

Travel to Darktown and speak with Walter.

Enter the sewer passage, North, and fight off shades and a rage demon.

Climb the steps and work your way North, wary of traps.

As you reach the northern room, you’ll battle more shades amidst a fiery trap.

Work your way East, up the steps, and be wary of a trap. If you can’t disable it, you can carefully walk around it.

Beyond the spike trap, there is a dart trap that can be disabled by pulling a switch.

Continue East into a cutscene.

Kill Evelina.

Loot the chest on your way out, South.

Travel to North-East Lowtown and speak to Nyssa.

Exit Lowtown and return to the elven alienage at night.

Huon will kill his wife. Avenge her.

Return to the templar hall in the South-West Gallows (Day) to speak with Meredith.

Fighting Bloodrager goons along the way may earn you the side quest, Red Run Streets.

Enter Bartrand’s Estate.

Work your way West through the haunted house, then turn North, through a door, then through a doorway into a library. Turn East, and continue through a door all the way to the eastern side of the house, through another door, and into a cutscene.

Exit West, then backtrack the way you came, West, then South, then East into the large central chamber.

Climb the steps. In the northern room is a complex chest.

Open the middle door.

After a cutscene, you must fight an ethereal golem.

When reduced to 66% health, it’ll disappear and spawn shades. Once they are vanquished, he will return. This happens again at 33% health.

After the battle, if you don’t let Varric keep the idol, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with him.

If you don’t Varric keep it, take the shard to Sandal at your mansion (How is this a good idea? Give the evil relic to the child?)

Speak with Merrill in her home. You gain 10 friendship points with her if you agree to help.

Travel to Sundermount.

Head West, into the Dalish camp. Speak with Keeper Marithari. If you ask her to help fix the mirror, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Merrill.

Head North up the right-hand path.

Once you round a U-bend, spiders will drop the the… sky? Oh, come on!

Continue up the path.

If you have picked up the quest Awiergan Scrolls: Third Aspect, you will enter a quest battle in the area marked with an X on your minimap, filled with ruins surrounding a campfire.

Behind a ruined wall to the East is a scroll. Grab it to acquire the quest, The Awiergan Scrolls: Second Aspect. Yes, they are out of order.

Proceed up into Sundermount Passage.

Travel South-East, grabbing the raw lyrium along the way.

Once the path levels off East, you’ll be ambushed by spiders in the next cavern.

Exit to the mountain graveyard, South.

It’s unclear whether looting the graves causes undead to spawn, or if they would have spawned anyway, but do it for the XP and loot. No one calls you a grave robber.

From the graveyard, the path run East. Atop the steps are the creatures you must face for the quest, The Awiergan Scrolls: Second Aspect. If you carefully kite them one at a time, you shouldn’t have a problem.

Continue up the mountain; you’ll fight dragonlings and a dragon.

As you approach the dead end, you’ll have one more battle before you can enter the cave, Pride’s End. Who name’s a cave Pride’s End? Sheesh.

Enter the cave. Head North and touch the strange idol.

Good news: touching the idol doesn’t make something horrible happen.

Bad news: the spirit is gone.

Good news: Keeper Marethari did it to save Merrill.

Bad news: you have to kill the Keeper.

Good news: she’s got some great loot.

If you scold Merrill, you’ll gain 15 rivalry points with her.

Exit, South. You’ll be accosted by a band of merry elves. If you say, “Stand Down,” or say the Keeper was possessed, you’ll gain 10 friendship points with Merrill, but will have to commit genocide on the rest of the elven race. You’ll fight these elves here, then you’ll have to kill everyone in the Dalish camp on your way home. If you take responsibility, you’ll gain 15 rivalry points with Merrill and the elves will magically pop out of existence.

Upon completion of this quest, you’ll get Merrill’s Questioning Beliefs quest.

You unlock this quest by completing the first three quests in this mini-series. Fast-travel to Anders’ clinic, then enter the Hidden Lair to your West. It is the same path you used to enter your manor when slaves lived within it.

Travel East into the area and fight the demon and his minions. It is advised to bring Varric instead of Isabela; the demon does heavy damage to melee-types. Kiting it around with ranged attackers while the melee characters deal with the minions is advised–it may take long, but you won’t use many potions and no one should die.

You receive this quest as a letter to your writing desk. This is the last quest in the game, so be sure to finish off all other business first. Travel to the Gallows.

Depending on whether you side with Meredith or Orsino, as well as the friendship/rivalry levels of your companions, some of your friends may support you while others may not. In this playthrough, Hawke sided with the mages, and everyone but Fenris supported him.

You must then decide whether or not to take Anders with you. You can also execute him for blowing up a kind old lady.

That done, you must select your party. Don’t worry — your other companions will join you later.

Battle your way to the Docks, East.

Head to the Gallows, North. You’ll fight a blood mage, Pride Demon, and shades.

In the next cutscene, you can convince Fenris to return to your team. Just play the slave card.

After a pep talk with all of your buddies, speak to Orsino.

Once you’ve defeated the first wave of Templars, Orsino will pick the worst possible time to have a mental breakdown, transform into a demon, and attack you.

As the big flesh blob is nearing death, he’ll transform into a smaller blob, and corpses will join the fight. Orsino will later merge back into megablob, at full health.

Once battle is over, exit to Templar Hall, South.

As you advance, shades will spawn.

After battle, head through the eastern door. Sandal will be there with all your stuff. Somehow. Also, he sells things now. This is your last chance to stock up on anything before the final showdown.

Exit through the southern door, then the eastern one. The second door to the North is a room filled with fire traps and a rage demon, and the corpse loot isn’t great, so you can just skip it.

You’ll fight templars, blood mages, and a seduction demon in this next room.

Exit the room and take the southern door into another battle.

Exit, West, and descend the steps, South, into battle.

West, up the steps, lies a trap-laden corridor filled with abominations, skeleton archers, and an arcane horror. It’s a tough battle, and unnecessary, but there is loot.

In the westernmost room await two pride demons. There are two corpses with decent loot in this room; you can kite the demons to this room’s exit and let ranged characters kill them — the demons cannot fit through the doorway. After one demon dies, shades will spawn, but the second demon will likely be blocking the path for the shades.

Exit to the gallows, South.

You finally get to face Meredith. Once she is down to 75% health, she animates a huge statue to fight for her.

At 50% health, she animates a second huge statue, as well as the smaller (but still giant) slave statues that hang from the walls.

While you’re still fighting the smaller statues, she will rejoin the battle and continue to summon the statues.

When Meredith is down to 25% health, the huge statues will partially reanimate (just their torsos).

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116 Comments on Dragon Age 2 Walkthrough

Ches

On March 9, 2011 at 8:24 am

so, i’ve done all this quests, i cant find any new one, so thats it? i finished the game? i hope not….

Tyler

On March 9, 2011 at 8:29 am

Gather 50 soveriegn to fun the deep roads expedition for varric and his brother

JH

On March 9, 2011 at 8:44 am

To Tyler: “so, i’ve done all this quests, i cant find any new one, so thats it? i finished the game? i hope not….”

I think that is just Act I of the game. It does span 10 years so at a certain point I think you may have to initiate a cutscene but it won’t be easy to find to prevent players from accidentally initiating it without intending. idk

dylan

On March 9, 2011 at 9:22 am

some1 please help ive given 50 sovereign and ive helped anders and the guy said patch things up ive talked to all my party members i got isabella i even helped her friend but wen i go 2 talk to him he says the same thing how do i activate the deep roads quest

chris

On March 9, 2011 at 9:57 am

You have to return to your house, read the letters and complete the quests given. At least thats what worked for me.

dylan

On March 9, 2011 at 10:38 am

where do i find a dragon i need a dragon scale??

Matt

On March 9, 2011 at 11:21 am

I think I found the dragon scale when I killed the dragon in the Bone Pit mission.

Rioshi

On March 9, 2011 at 2:41 pm

Hint, guys. When you save a Dreamer, remember this. Save beforehand, and follow this rule.

Little ones on top before a fight, to get level up points.
Red Square before a fight, to repeat.
Book is Hunted, to repeat another.

Cheers ^^

john

On March 9, 2011 at 5:47 pm

has anyone got hawkes armour?

dylan

On March 9, 2011 at 7:14 pm

im stuck on herbalists task i gave em the spider gland and the ironbank it says find a dragon fang n the outskirts bt i cnt find a dragon anywhere sum1 help?

CJ Miozzi

On March 9, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Hey guys, just wanted to pop in to say that we’ll eventually be able to answer all of your questions as we work through the game.

Stay tuned!

Matt

On March 10, 2011 at 2:08 am

Dragon Scale comes from doing all the side quests for the Bone Pit, Hawkes armor doesnt come into play until very late in the game.

JMcDowell00

On March 10, 2011 at 12:21 pm

This is driving me nuts: during the skirmish between Captain Ewald (sp?) and the deserters outside the city gates, Captain Ewald appears to repeatedly cast an AoE spell and also throws down his sword and fires off some other spell-looking thing. If I didn’t know better, he looks like a really-well animated Arcane Warrior. (I know this can’t be the case). What are those skills? Can I get them? I can’t be the only one that noticed this.

bgroxs

On March 10, 2011 at 1:59 pm

well im starting the deep road exp. n i want to know that should hawk bring his sis or not?

bgroxs

On March 10, 2011 at 2:21 pm

rply soon ccause im not playin….lloollzzz….n i think this game is short compare to DAo.well i hope not.

Rhaff

On March 10, 2011 at 2:40 pm

To bgroxs: If you dont bring the one of the twins (brother if you are mage, sister if your are warrior/rogue) you will loose them until later in the game. If you bring them, they get tainted and will be gone until the final act.

Raual

On March 10, 2011 at 4:47 pm

In the quest Fools Rush In it will not let me enter the chantry…Anyone know why?

Jacob

On March 10, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Raual, I had the same issue and skipped the rest of that quest… I was guessing it was a glitch.

CJ Miozzi

On March 10, 2011 at 5:38 pm

@Raual, Jacob: Did you folks follow the steps in the walkthrough? Did you maybe get ahead of Isabella? Did you not kill everyone you were supposed to kill?

I could just be a bug, but let’s be sure.

d3ToX

On March 10, 2011 at 7:51 pm

How do you upgrade your party’s armor? It keeps saying restriction to hawk.

Patrick

On March 10, 2011 at 8:03 pm

I had the same problem with the fools rush in quest. Think its cuz I ran ahead without Isabella…does this mean I am unable to have her as a companion?

CJ Miozzi

On March 10, 2011 at 8:22 pm

@Patrick Can you try to do the Fools Rush In quest again? How did you exit the quest? That is the quest that allows you to add her to the party.

Rhaff

On March 10, 2011 at 10:14 pm

For those of you who can’t complete fools rush in, it might be because you havent killed everyon you’re supposed to.

Geodelik

On March 11, 2011 at 5:06 am

Can someone explain to me where is the Shallowguard warehouse? I went there for the quest “Night Lies” but it was so difficult to win the battle, so i got out from the warehouse to get back later but now I cant find that warehouse and there is no marker for that quest!
Thanks

Raual

On March 11, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Im pretty sure i killed everyone because isabela walked to the chantry door like she was ready to go in…and i walked back and checked about 3 times but nothing happened

Rhaff

On March 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm

@ Raual well then i dont know.. reload to an earlier save and try again?

Ryvrstar

On March 11, 2011 at 4:59 pm

@d3ToX

You buy upgrades for your companions armor throughout the game.

xyberfire

On March 11, 2011 at 9:40 pm

I’ve lost my pirate girlfriend when she was kid napped. Does anyone know where to find her?

CJ Miozzi

On March 11, 2011 at 10:00 pm

@Raual Really dumb question, but… did you click on the Chantry door? Isabela only walks up to it; you have to open it yourself. You probably did, but I just want to be 100% sure.

Patrick

On March 11, 2011 at 10:52 pm

I killed everyone and she is waiting at the door but I am unable to enter. The quest is still active but I’ve moved on. Call it a glitch I guess.

Zack

On March 12, 2011 at 1:00 am

To get the dragon scale/fang for the herbalist complete the mission given to you by a merchant in hightown where he asks you to save his miners, to beat this mission you slay a mature dragon. Also if you go back to sundermount after your deep roads expedition and climb to the top of the mountain you can slay another one not to mention get into some pretty good fights on the way up for a little extra experience.

Zack

On March 12, 2011 at 1:08 am

the glitch in “fools rush in” is really obnoxious but easy to fix. After you kill the first wave of guys (the one led by the woman who calls isabella a wench), wait for isabella to tell you to check the bodies before you take the note off the leader, you’ll know it works when isabella gets a “plot point” icon above her head and begins to lead you to the chantry. If you want her on your team you will have to do this mission, i think its worth it i like having a couple of rouges to choose from, and she has some pretty funny conversations with the rest of your team as your exploring.

003

On March 12, 2011 at 8:52 am

where act 2 3

Steven

On March 13, 2011 at 8:44 pm

@dylan: When you talk to the Dwarf to start the Deep Roads expedition, they will hint to you who you need to finish up work with before proceeding. You may finish up one, go to him, and one of your party members will tell you another one you need to wrap up with. Eventually once you have all your business wrapped up that needs to be done when you view the city map you will see the quest indicator in the city map when you try to travel. If you don’t see it on your map, then it’s not time for you to talk to him yet and you still need to wrap up some business. I also believe the quest will update and it will tell you to go talk to the Dwarf in the quest information when you are ready to move on.

I recommend just knocking out side quests until the Deep Roads Expedition quest activated for me. That’s what I did and a lot of them are actually really great with a good back story, excellent cut scenes and decent rewards. I didn’t do them all though, to save some unseen content for subsequent playthroughs, but I did enough to activate it for me.

brandonicus

On March 14, 2011 at 1:40 am

just wondering why i cant open any doors in the migistrates orders secondary mission, i have completed the fight in the large chamber with a central brazier, but cant open the doors to get to lia?

CJ Miozzi

On March 14, 2011 at 7:27 am

@brandonicus Did you follow the steps in the walkthrough? From the room with the brazier, did you head South, then East, then North into the final cutscene? Lia is not in the room to the East; she is in the southern corridor.

GexOgen

On March 14, 2011 at 2:56 pm

>>> Companion Plot: The Way It Should Be
>>> 18. You will gain 5 rivalry points with Varric.

… or gain 5 friendship points use sarcasm

PS: and you may gain 5 friendship points with Aveline in church, need say something “There is no god”

Blake

On March 14, 2011 at 4:46 pm

Where do u find thrash after killing off the Templars at the end of act of mercy

pkasper77

On March 15, 2011 at 12:53 am

Stuck on herbalist mission. Got all the items and returned them to him. Journal shows they were returned but also shows the task still active. Not sure if it is a glitch. Also have done practically all the missions but need more coin for the expedition. Any ideas?

ThePrestige

On March 15, 2011 at 1:42 am

Anyone know how to defeat the big rock demon thing in the deep roads.

ThePrestige

On March 15, 2011 at 4:20 am

Keep checking uncles home for letters. There are more missiond there.

Wolfis

On March 15, 2011 at 5:19 am

Well I bought the skill book for 20 gold and now I have completed all quests (yes I have checked for mail at home). Any ideas on how to make some quick gold someone ?

Scream

On March 15, 2011 at 8:51 am

Hi,i have lvl 19 and i have completed all quests in the city,where i must go now ?

toriankel

On March 15, 2011 at 1:29 pm

when will this walkthrough be completed? Finished the game already, I’m itching for a second playthrough with another class, a mage perhaps.

CJ Miozzi

On March 15, 2011 at 4:22 pm

@GexOgen: Thanks!

@Scream: Did you leave for the Deep Roads Expedition?

@toriankel: The walkthrough will be completed as soon as possible–sorry, I can’t be more specific. I’m going through all the side-quests I possibly can for the sake of completeness, and writing everything down along the way, so I can’t get through it as quickly as someone just playing for fun. Stay tuned!

agod

On March 15, 2011 at 5:25 pm

I need some tips on how to even out my alltrabuets

toriankel

On March 15, 2011 at 7:03 pm

I have completed all quest, the main plot quest and all companion quest and almost all side quest except 4, I think there is a glitch in the dalish tattoo quest can’t seem to get this done., the others quest I haven’t completed are the following: The lost Swords, Who needs rescuing?, The arwiegan scroll:pride unbound. That’s why I need a second play through, though the camera angles gave me a freaking headache the game is worth playing.

toriankel

On March 15, 2011 at 7:06 pm

btw I played a rogue class in my first playthrough, maybe i play mage next time

James

On March 16, 2011 at 3:22 am

Several people have mentioned not being able to complete quests.
I found some times you lost the ability to click on stuff, chests, loot Doors, you know important stuff. If you save the game at that point then exit the game completly (quit), then restart this gets fixed. Yes I konw this is a “switch it off then on again” fix but it works

larry

On March 16, 2011 at 6:30 am

Does anyone know if or where the is a 2nd elixar of arcane, pysical and mortal vesselother then the ones in the black emporium?

larry

On March 16, 2011 at 6:36 am

For the people needind gold. There is a cheat to get gold. It is the same cheat for gold that was for da:o.

bas

On March 16, 2011 at 9:19 am

hi, im stuck trying to fight the arishok so he doesnt take isabella, playing through as rogue, any tips will be appreciated

Yunie

On March 16, 2011 at 10:25 am

The Prestige; Wait for it to unleash that really mean attack that drains alot of health over time. When it does: quickly hide behind one of the pillars (it will do no damage then). Afterwards it will fall apart on the ground and just attack it as much as you can. You also need to kill it´s ugly minions, cause their ranged attacks can really hurt. Repeat until dead!

Good luck!

CJ Miozzi

On March 16, 2011 at 8:38 pm

@Blake: He should be there with the Templars; did he die in the battle?

@agod: If you “auto-assign” the attributes, the game does a decent job of distributing the points. You can first pick which skill you want, then let the game decide where to put your attribute points.

Kyocera

On March 17, 2011 at 12:40 am

toriankiel, th ink is in a chest in the dalish camp. Between two landships on the left from the entrance to the camp. You should probably first talk with the craftsman though. Hope this helps, cheers

Zaj

On March 17, 2011 at 8:46 am

One quest you’ve missed and i found while doing “finders keepers,” forgot the name but when talking to Aden, I told him no way i would pay him for info. After that, Varric mentioned to come back at nite, which i did and found the master’s list after a little fight with guard dogs. The paper mentioned something bout the west side of the map so i went there killing folks along the way. Right before the master’s house, there was a bunch of “guards.” After killing them i picked up a quest to get rid of the “nite guards.” After doing finders keepers, i went to the location and fought my hardest battle yet, died 3x. I finally figured out that the boss mage was doing that blood thingy which was killing me. So i killed him first and was able to finish the quest.

CJ Miozzi

On March 17, 2011 at 8:49 am

@Zaj: Thanks for the info! I didn’t have Varric in my party, so that must be why I didn’t have that option.

Heelal

On March 17, 2011 at 1:58 pm

Hello,
i’m having trouble finding a Varterral’s heart on the second herbalist’s task. It’s supposed to be on the mountain, but I’ve checked the whole place and even the abandoned thaig twice and couldn’t find it.
Does anyone know where to find Varterrals?

dan

On March 17, 2011 at 4:30 pm

You unlock a quest later on when going a companion quest for merill.the dalish leader asks you to go in a cave just past the camp to kill the vatarall

Mike

On March 18, 2011 at 2:04 pm

Does anyone know why Varric cannot unlock the room with Reiner in the warehouse at the docks. He has a 31 in cunning.

Christine

On March 20, 2011 at 10:44 am

Need some help. I’m now fighting the Arishok after he’s started a war with the city. I’m having trouble killing him. I’m a lvl 16 warrior with Varric, Anders and Aveline in my party. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Dave

On March 20, 2011 at 11:28 am

Hey has anyone done the ‘Who needs rescuing?’ side quest in act 3? It says to rescue orlanna from bandits on the wounded coast but i can’t find them. There is a bandit leader just stood down the pathway on the right but he wont do anything. Is this an error?

Otto

On March 20, 2011 at 4:55 pm

have someone found the quest for the achievement ”Exorsist” and ”Demon slayer”? realt wanna do those;>

Shrap

On March 21, 2011 at 6:59 am

I both of those, to get exorcist you have collect and destroy all the evil books. When you do Bebensheneck(sp) comes out. Kill him

To get Demon slayer, you have to collect all the Algerian(sp) scrolls and kill the pride demon in Darktown

Shrap

On March 21, 2011 at 7:03 am

Hawke’s armor (Armor of the Champion) is collected throughout Act 3. The chestpiece is on the High Dragon.
High Dragon attacks you throughout 5 waves:
Wave 1- Solo
Wave 2- dragonlings
wave 3- dragon + dragonlings
wave 4- 2dragons + dragonlings
Wave 5- Solo
You will need the potion that gives you 80% life/40% stam back. I used 30 of these over a 15 minute fight

Shrap

On March 21, 2011 at 7:12 am

If anyone know how to solo Arishok pls let me know
I had full armor of the fallen, 41 health/31 const and he pwned me.
I dont think it’s possible to have enough points to solo him by the end of act2…I bought all the books/potions available at the time.
Only thing I didnt do was enchant weapon, but all the better runes are in act 3 so…

Stacy

On March 21, 2011 at 3:28 pm

At the end of Act 2 (are those the only acts? This game was short if so) and can’t kill Arishok. Any clue as to how to do it?? Or if this is the end of the game anyways, maybe I just won’t. Just wondering. I’ve tried many many times, and still can’t, and there’s still lots of enemies left when i die, so it’s not even close. I’m about to give up. I did all the quests, and upgraded my characters as much as possible, so it should be possible to kill him right??? You would think anyways!!!

I haven’t done it as a warrior, but as a mage, you need to specialize in the entropy and spirit classes of spells. Basically, you need to use petrify, horror, and the upgraded misdirection hex to keep him the hell away from you while using the upgraded hex of weakness (I can’t remember the real name but it’s the one where you get a crit every time you hit him) to slowly whittle him down. Now, this only worked on normal so I have no idea if it works on harder difficulties and you’re going to be running like a little girl for half the fight, but you’ll still be able to kill him.

On a separate note, yes, they made this fight almost entirely too hard. I had to restart the game and specialize my mage specifically to what I told you in order to kill him and it almost didn’t work. That’s an entirely new level of WTF.

Raual

On March 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm

Ok i beat the game and can’t do anything so really startin to not like this game now…….

Kyocera

On March 22, 2011 at 2:21 am

@Christine first take out the Saarebas, there’s two of them behind Arishok. At first he’s not doing much, just standing and shouting some Qunari stuff so you have a free hand. I played rogue, killed the Saarebas, then the rest of the retinue while Aveline and Fenris tied Arishok in a fight. When he was alone he was like a sitting goose. Combustion Grenades are very useful in this fight, as well as Merrills tempest.

James

On March 23, 2011 at 3:20 am

To solo kill the Arishok as a rouge your best bet is use stealth alot, It doesn’t help against multiple enemies but it’s great to use in a solo while you wait for your potions and abilities to cool down. Then run in slap him, fall back heal and stealth…and repeat. This also works on the Royal Dragon and Meredith.

Kyocera

On March 23, 2011 at 3:51 am

Anyone knows if you get more experience points if you kill arishok solo?

Shrap

On March 23, 2011 at 12:02 pm

One of the only achievements I havent unlocked yet is to earn the respect of an advesary…and icon is of a Qunari…if beating him solo is the only way to earn his respect…that will be one achievement that will stay unlocked

As a group it’s way easy – start of fight have varric and anders unleash their AOE’s, that’s gonna take out everyone but the mages and Ari…take out the mages as a group then have Avi tank him…burn-down after that/

Shrap

On March 23, 2011 at 12:02 pm

One of the only achievements I havent unlocked yet is to earn the respect of an advesary…and icon is of a Qunari…if beating him solo is the only way to earn his respect…that will be one achievement that will stay unlocked

As a group it’s way easy – start of fight have varric and anders unleash their AOE’s, that’s gonna take out everyone but the mages and Ari…take out the mages as a group then have Avi tank him…burn-down after that/

Dragon

On March 24, 2011 at 8:39 pm

@Shrap
No, you can get the achievement before that battle if you just stay honest with the Arishok all the time. This includes telling him about the missing qunari delegates, what you did when you eventually find them, and Isabela having what he was after.

Shrap

On March 25, 2011 at 11:21 am

heh, so burning the bodies to hide the torture probably wasnt as up-front as he would’ve liked. THanks

Basically I Pretified, Haste, Crushing Prison then ranged him until he charged. Pause, avoid charge, rinse. repeat. couple a fireballs I think.
Mind blast dont work on him. I got fancy and started Firestorming during petrifies.

Way way WAY easier than with a warrior

chrisd

On April 9, 2011 at 12:40 am

2 questions: varric can open some of the locked chests can any of the other locked ones be opened somehow?
i start act 3 without isabelle so what did i do wrong in act 2, that i couldnt unlock her in act3?

Raene

On April 10, 2011 at 11:48 pm

Actually there is a single master chest in Act 2 as I couldn’t open it. Will try to find where it was.

Has anyone got much from the chests though as they’ve just been a source of sellables for me to date (am at the end of Act 2)? The better loot has seemed to be in “named” creature drops which is sort of logical but a bit weird as there are three companion thieves.

shrap

On April 13, 2011 at 2:10 pm

Master chests/traps = 40 cunning

The chests are there just to gain exp, nothing in them is worth equipping

Set-items only drop in main-story quest lines

If you dont have the rogue in act 3 that means you:
1- gave her up to the Qun
2- She didnt like you enough to come back when you went to face the Qun before the final fight.

Otto

On April 18, 2011 at 2:25 am

Thx Shrap:D

philip

On April 19, 2011 at 9:06 pm

I don’t know if I’ve done the wrong choices but never seen an ending so stupid.
U dont see the dragon again ( the first ) ever in the game after she saves u and u do that ridiculous task with the elves…Our paths shall cross again, she says, and we’re waiting for the sequel
So boring
Piece of crap

shrap

On April 21, 2011 at 10:32 am

There’s no wrong or right choices; as they all lead to the exact same ending:
Spoilers-
Side with the Mages and you’re a ‘heretic’; cue ending
Side with the Templars and they will use you until you too are a ‘heretic’; cue ending.
And the ending is quite stupid indeed. I didnt know I was done until the credits started rolling. It felt more like a warm-up than then ending…

Funny how they say ‘oh, all your actions form the world’ thats crap.
I’ve played as the ultimate goody goody and the most evil bastard ever and the only thing that changes are a side quest NPCs that might make a side remark as you pass by, but by the next act they are all gone.

I’ll definitely be torrenting DA3

Darkist

On April 23, 2011 at 6:10 am

for:
Secondary Plot: Night Terrors

you can get both Merrill and Isabela apology quest, just bring both with one other character, it is not hard to defeat all the demons with just 2 chars. In the end, you still have to choose getting your 6 attribute points or kill Torpor (wont give you the extra 6 points).

Kill Feynriel = no follow up Feynriel quest since he is dead (forgot when but you will get one to look where is he about later)

Kill Torpor = no 6 free points

Jason

On April 25, 2011 at 11:25 pm

Ok, I’ve completed the game, And now im stuck in my estate, How do i get out .-.

shrap

On April 28, 2011 at 1:53 pm

@Darkist:
Thats good to know. What is the effect of dealing with the demon on your teammates and who’s best to bring for the least rivalry?

Jason: You dont. Not until DLCs

Toeknee

On May 21, 2011 at 11:01 am

I am trying to figure out how to earn the Arishuks respect. Can anyone please tell me how to do that?

Alan

On May 23, 2011 at 1:33 pm

I keep losing the fight with Orsino in his various guises and I see from the walkthrough that there is still more to come, so I may not finish the game (I’m on Casual difficulty!). Why did he turn against us after we supported him? I’ve decided I don’t much like this game.

Shrap

On June 3, 2011 at 7:18 am

How to earn arishok’s respect is further up this thread.

Alan, CTRL A is your friend. If you cant beat the game on casual difficulty, your strats need looking at cause they game is crazy easy…CRAZY easy.
As for your decisions – you have none. THis is DA2 you just fight hordes of mobs and watch cutscenes. All decsions have been pre made. DOnt you notice that even when you refuse someone, you end up doing their request anyway (main plot).

oligosakarida

On June 6, 2011 at 3:37 am

already finish the game…graphics, okey but the whole game? it is too simple for me. the ending too…hope there will be the dragon age 3 which will have more quests, more choice of heroes and more happy endings (T T)

mewp

On June 6, 2011 at 2:16 pm

Is there a map of Kirkwall?

rizzla82

On June 13, 2011 at 4:20 am

Good game, only thing i had a problem with was the golem type thing in the deep roads and the huge dragon. But the end made me dissapointed, thought the fight in the end would be harder, but it was one of the easiest.

rizzla82

On June 13, 2011 at 4:37 am

And i would have liked to get armor for the others aswell, and i got alot of bows but noone could use them, not even the rouges.

Depni99

On June 15, 2011 at 5:42 am

i want to add something, in the mirror image quest, if you gave merril the “thing” not only you get 10 rivalry point with aveline you’ll also get 10 rivalry point with anders if you brought him along.

vtskifan

On June 18, 2011 at 4:27 pm

Has anyone encountered a glitch with the Mine Massacre side quest? I completed it and there are still quest markers on 2 spots (1 on the High Dragon and 1 on another dragon. Thanks!

crazzyninja

On July 17, 2011 at 4:13 pm

@vtskifan its probably because you looted the dragon before the quest for the herbalists task in act 3 could load the same thing happened to me and i just kept going

Akshay

On July 18, 2011 at 3:24 pm

@rizzla82 you cant buy armor for your companions, you can just upgrade it.

For all the people trying to finish Arishok 1v1 as warrior, I’ve found that a hit and run strategy works best. Just zoom up to him, pause, run away and repeat. As long as your constitution is above 25, you should be able to kill him with about 10 health potions and 10 stamina potions. But it’s extremely long and difficult. First time I 1v1ed him, got close enough to kill him with 1 hit, but had really low hp (only had about 6 health potions) and I died to his impale. So with 10, you should have enough sustenance to keep you going for the whole battle. And if you’ve taken Reaver spec, then you’ll just need about 5 elfroot potions and 15 stamina potions, seeing as you can heal yourself with devour. This method will probably drag the battle for more than 10 minutes, with a lot of pausing and positioning and whatnot.

Hi guys!
really like DA 2. I am currently in act3. the High Dragon is making it difficult for me to move on, but that means I can focus on the other side quests. If anyone is having issues with this part of the game, I will personally try later:
1 warrior (hawke), 2 mages (anders & merrill), 1 rogue (verric) = hope it helps. gonna try this when I get home from work.

Paulanatter

On December 17, 2011 at 9:08 pm

There are a few discrepancies in the walkthrough to ‘A Bitter Pill’

•You say not to bring Fenris because it will cause a bug (Step one); then a few steps later (step eleven) you tell me that if I neglected to bring Fenris (which you just told me to in step one) then the quest might glitch.

Also, since you gave the location to the Embrium I think you might as well include the Glitterdust too.

•Between steps four and five if you head in the opposite direction to the chest on the rise.

At the start of the area there is a fork in the road and one fork is blocked off, if you try to take that route from the other end, opposite where the chest is, you find some Glitterdust

Paulanatter

On December 17, 2011 at 9:10 pm

Having just looked through where I was: a better explanation as to getting to the Glitterdust

•Just go to the bottom of all the stairs

niall

On December 29, 2011 at 8:24 am

guys completed the game and all u get to do is stay in your home and do nothing….not a good ending if any1 has any suggestions on how to get out of your house(the other countries…so to speak are locked) please reply

niall

On December 29, 2011 at 8:26 am

and for the high dragon you use 2 melee classes 1 mage and anders as a mage and healing i found this very doable and have healing potions set to all your ppl

niall

On December 29, 2011 at 8:30 am

so if any1 knows if it is even possible to get out of your house(after completion) i would really like to know

niall

On December 29, 2011 at 8:37 am

guys on archisok u do not need health potions or run stratergy tank him i found it easy enough

niall

On December 29, 2011 at 8:39 am

this fight took me 2mins 37 seconds and any questions on any quests you are having troubles with just leave a reply here and i will answer it i do not work here but i do know a lot about the game

Daryl

On December 31, 2011 at 4:21 am

I found Mage awesome! ‘cept when you get overwhelmed by warrior enemies.

I played Rogue up ’til you face the Arishok ( couldn’t beat him) so I finally gave up on that
Was on level 20 with my rogue too… So how the $&@! you finally beat him? I did everything it said in the walkthrough and still lost to ‘im!

So now I workin on de Warrior… Wish me luck

sir Hawke

On March 19, 2012 at 9:43 am

finally, i ended this game with my rogue (just reach level 19 in the end of this game). i love rogue, because it have dual weapon, it looks really cool.

i dont read this walktrough but i can beat any monster with easy, and i have no difficult to defeat arishok if you learn his (arishok) movement/ attack’s rhyme during your battle with him.

but this game just too short, like CoD Modern Warfare 2.
i need a game that have a long story line, any reccomendation for me?

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